One again the hive mind of the Internet has proven to be – there’s no point beating about the bush here – a huge twat.
Resident Evil 6 has 2,484 user ratings on Metacritic and currently has a score of just 0.4.
Metacritic do not post a table of the lowest user scores but I would guess that very few games have rated as badly as this over the years.
Obviously the score is ridiculous, as are many of the comments. ‘It look like a PSP game ported to HD console’ claims ‘blabla33’ whilst ‘Rick_Donkulous’ offers these sage words, ‘Crapcom totally shat the bed with this turkey.’
It appears a lot of the people registering a score have not played the game and are laying in to Capcom for turning a survival horror game into a shooter.
Capcom will be upset by the reaction but it would be interesting to find out what is happening over at EA, specifically at Visceral and Dead Space 3.
I wonder if they are paying attention?
Source: Metacritic
The Lone Steven
I suspect the very low average score is not based on the game itself but due to Resident Evil being a shooter first with little to no horror left in the franchise. That or they are doing it to spite Capcom due to their habit of selling a lot of DLC that consists of content that would have been an unlockable in the game last generation or because of the super mega extreme editions with a few new modes and 2 skins at full rrp.
From what i’ve seen, it’s an action game that has too many QTEs. Resident Evil doesn’t need that much QTEs! It’s not about one man’s quest to kill every god in a brutal way that does have a decent reason for having QTEs. It’s about or was about trying to survive a zombie outbreak.
LethalX08
So the trolls are out in force.
Also RE1-3 where not scary. Played them as a child & all i remember was disappointment & being pissed off at the **** controls.
People say survival horror but i always had loads of ammo, yes i dodged enemies but it was never due to no ammo, mainly due to being pissed at controls or a puzzle, i just had to get further in the game before i rage quit, hell in borderlands i never have any f*cking ammo, that’s more bloody survival than the old resi games haha.
PS:
Expectations of a majority of gamers: HERE
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My expectations. Low = rarely disappointed…. unless it’s a true abomination like ET on the Atari 2600.
enigma_flex
Although I like the action based feel to the Resident Evil 4 and 5 games and will probably enjoy 6, I am in agreement that the Resident Evil series has totally lost its original appeal as a survival horror game. The newer games are completely different to the games us RE fans originally fell in love with, in fact I would go as far as saying that the newer games should not be classed as sequels to the original 3 games, they should be spin offs that serve to expand legend. It would be nice to see Capcom make Resident Evil titles along side these games that stick to the more traditional format of the original games.
LTG Davey
*sigh* its MW3 all over again.
RE6 (while not being the best in the series) is still brilliantly paced, looks fantastic and is loaded with content. Easily worthy of an 80+ rating.
Kaminari
Remember that TSA is part of the Metacritic aggregator panel… and Res 6 got an appalling 65% by this very panel. But maybe all Metacritic-approved reviewers other than TSA’s are also a bunch of twats?